We can restore balance to the Constitution

12:57 PM,
Jun. 13, 2013

Written by

Tom Coulson, Marshall

Between the 1868 adoption of the 14th Amendment, passed to protect the rights of freed slaves, and the 1896 Supreme Court's Plessey v. Ferguson decision, 150 citizen's rights cases were heard by the Supremes. Only 15 of these cases involved African-Americans (one was won). The rest involved expanding the rights of corporations.This trend has continued to present times, reaching the point where meaningful free speech, once thought to be infinite, is available only to those in a position to buy it and corporations enjoy the rights (but not the responsibilities) of citizens. We've reached ...